In 2017, I was appointed as Junior Research Fellow to the Institut Universitaire de France for five years (2017-2022). The goal of this post is two-fold. I am now halfway through my 5-year research project, and...

Fellow Institut Universitaire de France colleague Julien Longhi invited me to give a talk at AFLA2020, the annual meeting of the French Association of Applied Linguistics. The event took place at CY Cergy Paris...

(updated Sept. 27th, 2019) This post provides an introduction to doing regional dialectology in the UK with R. More specifically, I focus on mapping lexical variables from the spoken component of the British National...

Last month, my paper « Can word vectors help corpus linguists? » was published in Studia Neophilologica. It is part of a special issue following a conference on corpus linguistics held at Avignon University on June...

I am pleased to announce that I will teach a course on exploratory statistics for corpus linguistics at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School. The summer school will take place at the University of Birmingham...

BNC.query() is an interactive R script that I wrote for a course in computational sociolinguistics last semester. It is designed to run queries over the BNC-XML (spoken component). It extracts a single word or...

Last edit: June 7th, 2019 BNC.2014.query() is an interactive R script that I wrote for a course in computational sociolinguistics last semester. It is designed to run queries over the BNC-2014 (spoken component). It...

British National Corpus 2014 is a project led by the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University to create a 100M word corpus of contemporary British English, the BNC-XML, which is now...

The data set presented here was compiled by Frédérique Gayet, a psychomotor therapist whose research I supervised in 2013. Gayet (2013) focused on spatial prepositions in French: à côté de « next to » en dessous...

A regression towards mediocrity Originally, the term regression means “going back”. It gained currency when Sir Francis Galton related the heights of children to the average height of their parents. Galton (1886) found that...